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This classic work interprets Miyamoto Musashi's famous Book of Five Rings specifically for the martial artist-as Miyamoto Musashi originally intended. It explains the underlying truths necessary for a full understanding of Musashi's message for warriors. The result is an enthralling book on martial strategy that combines the instincts of the warrior with the philosophies of Zen Buddhism, Shintoism, Confucianism and Taoism. It is a crucial book for...
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Eastern philosophy enters the stables in this unique guide to horsemanship. Allan Hamilton describes how horses understand and respond to the flow of vital energy around them. They use this energy, called chi, to communicate with their herd, express dominance, and sense predators. Hamilton shares safe, simple techniques to make you more receptive to your animal's chi, so you can develop a calm and effective training style that will not only help...
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THE NEW ASTROLOGY™ - THE BIBLE OF WORLD ASTROLOGY. Suzanne White's Book is vastly more amusing than most astrology books. It's informative and innovative. And... it's accurate to the letter about how an individual's basic character is born with them. Wait! Don't commit. Don't make promises you won't be able to keep. Read this book to find out the true character and personality of the other person - especially as it compares to yours. You might be...
1424) Martial Virtues: Lessons in Wisdom, Courage, and Compassion from the World's Greatest Warriors
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This martial arts books explores the role of martial philosophy and history in personal character development. These are a few of the virtues of the ideal warrior or martial artist. But from whence do these virtues arise? Are they inherent, or can they be cultivated and taught? If so, how? Martial Virtues explores the role of martial arts in character development. It focuses on the spiritual aspects of martial arts training, attempting to answer the...
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Welcome to The Superconscious Mantra of Divine Love. This is a simple potent mantra to help you experience more spiritual growth, emotional freedom, inner happiness, and compassion for others. You can further use it intentionally to help the planet move to higher states of love, clarity, and functioning.
In this short book I will share this mantra with you, and then issue you a sacred challenge to repeat, feel, and vibrate...
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To quiet his existential horror, a brooding young man seeks to understand life. Cliff Gogh is out in the dark, a solitary ghost examining himself in the night, with all of his mental faculties directed toward the intangible, pain, darkness, despair, fearlessness, love, and the incomprehensibly vast.
1427) Calling a Wolf a Wolf
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In 'Heritage,' a fierce poem dedicated to an Iranian woman executed for killing the man attempting to rape her, award-winning poet Akbar proclaims, 'in books love can be war-ending/…in life we hold love up to the light/ to marvel at its impotence.' Yet if real-life love is disappointing ('The things I've thought I've loved/ could sink an ocean liner'), Akbar proves what books can do in his exceptional debut, which brings us along on his struggle...
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This book will help you understand how a Vedic birth chart is the key to tapping into your
personal cosmic frequency. A Vedic birth chart is a language that explains the harmonic
frequency that is embedded within our earthly bodies. Your Vedic birth chart is your
karmic code or, light matrix, that identifies you as a unique intersection of the cosmos with
individualized form. I will show you the building blocks of this so that when we arrive...
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THIS BOOK'S ACCURATE DESCRIPTIONS OF WESTERN SUN SIGNS COMBINED WITH ALL 12 CHINESE ANIMAL SIGNS IS ASTOUNDING. EACH CHAPTER OFFERS AN INGENIOUS BLEND OF THE WORLD'S TWO MAIN ZODIACS. THE NEW ASTROLOGY REVEALS TRUE CHARACTER AND DEFINES PERSONALITY. THE FEISTY PISCES/DRAGON IS, FOR EXAMPLE, VASTLY DIFFERENT FROM A MORE DOCILE PISCES/RABBIT. FIND OUT IN THIS BOOK HOW THE 12 MYSTICAL CHINESE ANIMAL SIGNS AFFECT THE LIVES OF ALL PISCEAN PEOPLE. BOOK...
1430) Oil Leaders: An Insider's Account of Four Decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's Global Energy Policy
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Oil is an unusual commodity in that individual decisions can have an outsized effect on the market. OPEC+'s choice to increase production, for instance, might send prices falling, affecting both oil producers and consumers worldwide. What do the leading oil market players consider before making a fateful move?
Oil Leaders offers an unprecedented glimpse into the strategic thinking of top figures in the energy world from the 1980s through the recent...
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Summers Under the Tamarind Tree is a contemporary Pakistani cookbook celebrating the varied, exciting and often-overlooked cuisine of a beautiful country. In it, former lawyer-turned-food writer and cookery teacher Sumayya Usmani captures the rich and aromatic pleasure of Pakistani cooking through more than 100 recipes. She also celebrates the heritage and traditions of her home country and looks back on a happy childhood spent in the kitchen with...
1432) The Lost Arabs
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Award-winning Arab Australian poet Omar Sakr presents a pulsating collection of poetry that interrogates the bonds and borders of family, faith, queerness, and nationality.
Visceral and energetic, Sakr's poetry confronts the complicated notion of "belonging" when one's family, culture, and country are at odds with one's personal identity. Braiding together sexuality and divinity, conflict and redemption, The Lost Arabs is a fierce, urgent collection...
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The raucous and surprisingly poignant story of a young, Russia-obsessed American writer and comedian who embarked on a solo tour of the former Soviet Republics, never imagining that it would involve kidnappers, garbage bags of money, and encounters with the weird and wonderful from Mongolia to Tajikistan.
Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Siberia are not the typical tourist destinations of a twenty-something, nor the places one usually goes to eat, pray,...
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On 24 February 2022, eight years after invading the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine and organizing an illegal referendum in support of a subsequent Russian annexation, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Both Western and Russian intelligence services expected the invasion to quickly topple the democratically elected government in Kyiv and, with the help of collaborators, to overrun the Ukrainian...
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The journey continues in Part 2 of Into the Carpathians: a compelling chronicle of a hiking and wildlife research expedition along the Carpathian and Sudeten Mountains, from Romania to Germany, some 800 miles as the crow flies. Still on the trail of wolves, we now explore the enchanting mountain landscapes of Slovakia, Poland, and the Czech Republic, where poignant encounters with wolves, bears, and lynx; lumberjacks, shepherds, and outlaws; poets,...
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Iva Masek was born in Czechoslovakia in the short but tumultuous period of history between Nazi occupation and Soviet domination. Nurtured by her extended family and a system set on raising strong children, she grew up to become a national representative in gymnastics. While her sheltered upbringing prevented awareness of the corruption and brutality of the Communist regime, when she fell in love with a young man whose family have suffered deeply...
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Prepare to transform your life in 2024! Every year Human Design delivers a 365-day creative cycle that assists with releasing what no longer serves you and allows for a conscious increase of creative energy as you grow and evolve. This weekly guide is designed to give you a way to harness the Celestial energy supporting you in creating what you want in your life in 2023. Using weekly affirmations, writing assignments, and Emotional Freedom Techniques...
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LEO-YOUR WESTERN SUN SIGN COMBINED WITH YOUR CHINESE ANIMAL SIGN WILL ASTOUND YOU. THIS BOOK IS AN INGENIOUS BLEND OF LEO WITH ALL 12 CHINESE ASTROLOGY SIGNS. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT YOUR OWN NEW ASTROLOGY SIGN AND THOSE OF YOUR LOVERS, FRIENDS, FAMILY AND ENEMIES. In this new series, Suzanne White cleverly combines your Sun sign with your Chinese Animal sign to describe your NEW ASTROLOGY™ sign. Each book has the name of one Sun sign-Yours! In each...
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Volume 1 of Ukraine War focuses on the armed formations of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the largest of the two separatist entities in the east of Ukraine. Armed formations of the Donetsk People's Republic aims to provide an overview of their formation in 2014, their status up to the end of February 2022, and combat equipment, while also exploring issues around identity and symbology.
Loosely confederated with the armed formations of the...
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In the fall of 1993, Michael Sever smuggled $10,000 to family members in war-torn Yugoslavia. He undertook this mission to honor his father, who had passed away earlier that year.
But prior to the harrowing border crossing (with a forged visa), and subsequent monetary handover, he traveled through Europe on the cheap. While planning and plotting, he experienced nearly the whole gamut of Europe, from artistic to atrocious, from silly to somber.
This...